Found Sound Percussion Arpeggiator | REAPER and Kontakt 5

[Music] hey guys welcome to another Reaper blog tutorial I had this idea of taking found sound percussion and mapping it across keyboard and then playing it within our petty ATAR I've gone ahead and recorded just pen clicks and snaps and things like that as some source material to try this out and so now we're going to chop these up and I would use dynamic split for this but it was having a little trouble getting this right and although I'm not that picky about it I think it's easier in the end just to do it myself just using shortcuts basic editing techniques I'm splitting close to the transient and pressing s to split or I'm pressing a to trim the start and it click here press s and go here and press a to trim that and we're going to turn these all into individual individual samples so that we can load them into any sampler for this tutorial I'll use contact because it's so easy to drag and drop your samples in and either map them across velocity or map them across keys with stretching if you need that it follows velocity automatically so to make new files from these split items there's many different ways of doing it but I'm going to do it this way right click render items as a new take so that's process them all and I've got the original file that's cut up and I have all the individual files there and now we're going to insert a virtual instrument like contact contacts really easy for doing this and I'm going to double click to make a new instrument go to the wrench icon to go to the editor go to the mapping editor so I've got my mapping editor open I go to the a media explorer and I just click on project directory again to show all of my items that are here shift-click to select them all got 19 samples and I'll drag them on to the mapping area and if you pull up and down at shows it changes how many keys each sample is going to be mapped to we want on just one and I'll put it on c1 so I've got almost two octaves of samples there and they automatically map to are the velocity scales automatically which is great and now to activate the arpeggiator we can go to script editor and we can go to presets factory in sequencing and arpeggiator and now just put your hand down on some random keys and we get a pattern and we can change the rate easily here so I like a eath note triplet we can change the pattern I have on each sample let's hear that really fast so I think you can probably take this idea and apply it to other things so let's say you don't want to use the arpeggiator in contact we can go into the effects browser go to j/s and type in midi and it will come up with a few other options here one of them midi arpeggiator and we just put this not after contacts but before contact and it's basically going to do the same sort of thing we just play a key or multiple keys and it will create our pattern so we'll probably want to on to setting this tattoo will make that eighth notes and we can change the patterns there's not as many patterns to choose from here and we can also change the velocity we can set it to a specific velocity for everything that we play or if it's set to zero it will use what was played so you can do very softer hard heads so this option if you don't have contacts or the sampler that you're using doesn't have an arpeggiator built-in so we think this experiment worked I'm probably not the first person to think of this but this was just something that came to me last night and I wanted to try it out and I share the idea with you guys I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial thanks a lot for watching please subscribe to the channel if you haven't already follow me on Facebook and Twitter support on patreon I'm is a briefer blog net for a lot more tutorial [Applause] Oh [Music]

Channel: The REAPER Blog

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Keywords: the reaper blog, reaperblog, reaper blog, reaper tutorial, jon tidey, cockos reaper, reaper mixing tutorial, reaper editing tutorial, percussion, arpeggiator, kontakt 5, sampling percussion, make music with found sounds, chopping samples in reaper

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Length: 6min 38sec (398 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 14 2017